Android Ping!
So what...are we supposed to thank them or congratulate them on agreeing (for now anyway) *not* to tax this one small part of our lives? Sorry, guess I'm feeling a bit cynical this AM...
Posted on 02/12/2016 7:16:21 PM PST by Swordmaker
Today, the Senate voted to keep internet access tax free -- permanently.
If that feels like a small achievement, it's not. Taxing internet access has been barred by law since 1998. However, over the last 20 years, the prohibition wasn't a permanent law: it was a moratorium. To keep the moratorium in place, Congress had to extend it. And extend it again. So they did so in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2014 and a series of band-aids through 2015 -- eight times in total.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
This is good news. Now if they would make buying anything on the Internet tax free; it would be even better.
Illinois is not mentioned as a taxing state.
Illinois has a use tax.
Things bought from vendors outside illinois are subject to a 6.25 sales tax.
If you don’t keep records, Illinois imputes your tax owed based on your salary, even if you never bought anything online.
seems Illinois should be in this group.
No, not the same tax we are talking about here. This is a tax on being able to connect to or get access to the Internet, not a sales tax or use tax on anything purchased over the Internet, that is not addressed by this tax.
It may not be as significant as those other things, but it isn’t meaningless.
It’s an explicit acknowlegement, by Obama no less, that if you want something to thrive the last thing you do is tax it.
That acknowlegement, in principle, has enormous value.
They should put a $1.00 tax on each gallon of internet you use. ;-)
Excellent news. And it was a Republican Congress that made this happen.
thanks...
On the flip side, at least future folks will have to consciously decide to soak everyone instead of just claiming that they 'just allowed things to normalize" by stopping continuance of the moratorium....
finally some real good news!
Few have a grasp of that
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